Who am I? - Poem 1 | Scientific Serenades |

 Time flies,

Like I do in the skies.

Sometimes in a vial,

I am an experimental trial.

 

My genes are probed,

My secrets sought,

In all the books,

Variations of me are thought.

 

Praise me, your tiny friend;

whose life has helped, to comprehend.

 

Remember guys: it’s my eyes;

which got you that prize.

You owe me the Nobel,

I may be tiny in size,

But give’em all to me,

Or I’ll call those animal rights guys!

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Ans: Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Explanation:

Fruit flies are model organisms in the study of genetics. They are grown in vials for genetic experiments where they are mutated and bred to obtain the next generation for comparative study. 

Much of the secrets in genetics have been explored using the help of Drosophila. 

In 1910, Thomas Morgan looked through a hand lens at a male fruit fly, and he noticed it didn't look right. Instead of having the normally red eyes of wild-type Drosophila, this fly had white eyes. 

Morgan was interested in how the traits were inherited and distributed in developing organisms, and he wondered what caused this fly's eyes to deviate from the norm. Rest of his experiments confirmed the chromosome theory of inheritance.

 Morgan received the Nobel for his research.

 “Animal rights guys” are not behind geneticists for exploiting fruit flies, as insects are not yet proved to be sentient.